church let's stand together
and just like last sunday
we're going to do something very
different in 30 years we
uh we never did last sunday like we did
and we've never done a a good friday
like this and on sunday morning to come
resurrection morning as well and that is
i'm taking the opportunity to do a uh
a a compiling of scriptures
both out of the old and new testament
narrative
for us to
put our mind to and study
tonight on this
good friday
and so tonight we're going to be reading
from the screens together new king james
version
bible you'll be able to follow along
with us together i will read the
odd-numbered verses if you'll read out
loud in the even
numbered verses again this is a a
compiling a montage of old and new
testament together
regarding
passion week specifically
the fact that jesus christ alone is
worthy that's been our theme this week
and going into resurrection sunday
morning again i'll read the odd numbered
verses if you'll join with one another
out loud in the even-numbered verses
look to the screens if you would
now it came to pass after these things
that god tested abraham
and said to abraham abraham and he said
here i am
so abraham rose early in the morning and
saddled his donkey and took two young
men with him and isaac his son and he
split the wood for the burned offering
and arose and went to the place of god
which god had told him
and abraham said to his young men stay
here with the donkey the lad and i will
go yonder and worship and we will come
back to you
so abraham took wood of the burnt
offering and laid it on isaac his son
[Applause]
wow
verse 7. but isaac spoke and said to
abraham his father and said my father
and he said here i am my son then he
said look the fire and the wood but
where is the lamb for the burned
offering
it's one of the most profound statements
by the way ever made right there
now the lord spoke to moses and aaron in
the land of egypt saying this month
shall be your beginning of months
it shall be the first month of the year
to you
verse 11 your lamb shall be without spot
or blemish a male of the first year
now the blood from your lamb shall be a
sign for you on your house where you are
and when i see the blood of the lamb i
will pass over you
verse 15. now we move forward now in the
land of judea
coming to the people was a man named
john who preached not himself but that
christ was to come
for thus spoke the prophet saying he has
he was wounded for our transgressions
and he was bruised for now for our
iniquities the chastisement for our
peace was upon him and by his stripes we
are healed
he was oppressed and he was afflicted
yet he opened not his mouth he was led
as a lamb to the slaughter and as a
sheep before it shears as silent
so he opened not his mouth
and they put on him a purple robe and
when they had said hail king of the jews
they struck him with their hands
thus they cried out away with him away
with him crucify him
and there they crucified jesus and two
others with him one on either side and
jesus in the center
[Applause]
now before the feast of the passover
should end jesus knowing that his hour
had come that he should depart out of
this world back to the father having
loved his own who were in the world
he loved them until the end
[Applause]
now some of his followers took the body
of jesus down from the cross and bound
it with stripes or strips of linen
with spices as the custom of the jews is
to bury
so there they laid the body of jesus
father we praise you tonight for the
narrative for your word the bible we
thank you god that
we are able
to take old and new testament and mingle
it together for it is the word of god
and lord how your revelation stands firm
united because it is truth it is your
truth
and we thank you father that this night
we pause to give you the praise and the
honor and the glory
we ask it in jesus name and all god's
people said
amen you can be seated church
on this
good friday somebody once asked what is
good
about good friday and of course
the good out of it coming from early
england you all know that
it's rooted in that
word and the greeting
god's friday to you
it was the greeting of christians
a good day good night
good friday god's day god's night god's
friday this is where
god
reveals in a way that man could never
have concocted it man would never have
made this up
that there would be this one who would
live in all innocence and all purity
and as we learned last sunday one who
prophetically was revealed in the bible
before he was ever born to be the
eternal son of god
would come destined predetermined
by the foreknowledge of god that jesus
would go to the cross and remember as we
bring this passion week together
we're asking the question why jesus
christ alone is worthy worthy is our
celebration of this week
and we saw three
things that we considered and what
developed in the name of god
and that brought us down to
the names of god being represented when
jesus said remember last sunday seven
times
jesus revealed the great i am statements
of his deity the ego and me of god where
god announces in flesh so clearly i am
remember that he announced i am ego amy
and the religious jewish leadership
understood exactly what he was saying
because they turned on him to stone him
to death
this
week in history now the trials are
taking place on this week in history and
as we approach now the end of the week
and they are hiring
false accusers to
produce fake news against
jesus and the pharisees have got this
scheme and this plot going there's
collusion happening
to put together some form of
condemnation of jesus and there's only
one thing that they could agree upon
and it was true
they agreed you know what
because you know the bible says that
when they hired these people to tell
lies none of their lies they could get
to see us sequence their lies together
that all flopped
but what worked in in other words what
condemned jesus before an unbelieving
hierarchy was this one truth that
everybody agreed with by the way listen
the the condemners of christ agreed with
the statement and the followers of
christ
agreed with the statement and the
statement was this that he declared
himself to be god
and for that they condemned him for
blasphemy
and he gave those seven i am statements
remember quickly because it really
dovetails into where we're at tonight
why jesus christ alone is worthy
jesus said remember number one that
he's worthy because he is the bread of
life he said i am the bread of life
number two jesus said last week that i
am the light of the world
all of these are statements of deity and
remember last week they all connect with
the attributes of god jesus said i am
the door
you can't get into heaven without him
he made all of these statements leading
up to this friday in history number four
jesus announced i am the true vine
the source vine
without me there's no life there's no
life there's no salvation there's no
hope
number five jesus said i am ego amy
the good shepherd
we talked
about how amazing it is that the god of
the bible is the only
offer in town friends it's the only
deal
where the founder creator of the
invitation to put your faith in him is
the one that doesn't ask you to die he
says i'm gonna die for you what a deal
and i sarcastically i passionately i
pray it was under the anointing of the
holy spirit
mocked as in the spirit of elijah the
cults of the world
who offer you all kinds of stuff at your
expense
and jesus comes along and says no no no
it's at my expense
i am the good shepherd i lay down my
life for the sheep
my dear friend outside of jesus you have
no hope but there's good news for you in
jesus there's absolute
and total hope he's the good shepherd we
saw six that jesus said ego and that is
i am the resurrection and the life
what an awesome statement
and we talked a little bit depending
upon what service you're in because all
services are a little bit different here
jesus in saying that i'm the
resurrection and the life he said if a
man dies believing in me yet he lives
that he will never
die you remember we talked about the
turtle
anybody in your service
and all services got it wrong
i asked you what was the turtle and most
of you said the shell
the turtle's inside the shell remember
that and your body's like the shell the
inside of you lives and you've been
given life and the bible is very clear
the bible says for all of us who are
hearing right now
the bible says all of us live forever
after we die either in heaven or in hell
we live forever that's a that's a
glorious thought and it's a sobering
thought is it not
to be resurrected the bible says to
everlasting damnation
in the day of judgment or to be
resurrected into everlasting life
jesus says i am the resurrection and the
life
not anyone else not
any other
opportunity and then seventh we saw last
week that jesus said ego and me i am
the way the truth and the life
he's not only why he alone is the one
that is worthy
to be worshipped tonight as we celebrate
on palm sunday we talk about the how how
is it
how is it that he's the one
how does that come together and guess
what
church we have seven statements of jesus
at the time of his death seven
statements
we have the seven i am declarations of
him and his deity and now we have
seven proclamations
at his
suffering and at his crucifixion
and at the time of his death
number one is this if you would
jesus announced that he's worthy
because of the fact that he's our
intercessor
in luke chapter 23 verse 34 jesus cries
out and says father forgive them for
they do not know what they do they don't
understand this father forgive them
friends family listen up jesus christ on
the cross 2000 years ago cries out as
the great intercessor
to the very ones who put him on the
cross and condemned him
jesus says father
forgive them they know not what they do
now i've got to tell you something right
now that is not some have argued that is
in that is a universal
forgiveness that we're all going to go
and be in heaven together because of
that statement not true
you need to know that jesus didn't throw
out a costco
uh
all blanket salvation deal
now all are welcomed
to his salvation
but you've got to invite him into your
life you've got to repent of your sin
and you've got to ask christ
to come into your life to receive them
the bible says in john 1 verse 12 that
to all those who received him to them
gave he power to become sons
of god
but his first announcement
out of the seven at his dying is that
his intercessor he prays father forgives
them
don't hold this against them
by the way you might want to take notes
to this
every jew on that hilltop who knew their
old testament might have had a little
bit of a shiver up their spine because
they would have known deuteronomy
chapter 18.
in deuteronomy chapter 18 there the
bible says that the lord shall raise up
a prophet a priest a priestly prophet to
us
deuteronomy 8 moses said that
under the inspiration of the holy spirit
there's going to be one who's going to
intercede
and if you were jewish back then and
you're watching all this happen and you
you see this one
on a cross being offered up and he's
praying for you
imagine that he's praying for the roman
centurions the guards the witnesses he's
praying for the jewish community that's
before him
he's praying for the world
he's the intercessor
how is it that he's worthy of our praise
tonight in worship jesus intercedes the
bible says in the book of romans for
example that jesus christ intercedes to
the father for us is that amazing i
don't understand it i'm going to tell
you right now no listen no bible scholar
does
it's a mystery
that the bible says that jesus christ
intercedes for you before the father can
you imagine you can only imagine jesus
speaks to his father and he says father
there's jack again
and
he believes in me father
and so he's covered remember i went to
the cross just like isaac did carrying
the wood up to mount moriah
and there you said the lord will provide
himself the lamb
and john the baptist in john 1 29 says
behold the lamb that takes away the sins
of the world
father jack is covered by my blood
and all of you who are trusting christ
and trusting christ alone
his blood
washes away your sins
you can't trust in christ in your good
works do you understand that you can't
trust in christ in your church
attendance
you say well
my father was a pastor my my mother was
in the choir
my brothers are pastors
my sisters are choir people
i'm going to heaven
jesus said you're not going unless
you're born again
it doesn't matter if you have a you know
card-carrying membership to the first
pepticostal church you're not going
without being born again said jesus
but cheer up he's intercessing for you
he wants you to come he wants you to be
there number two
out of his statements as to why he's
worthy the second proclamation is the
fact that he's our defense
i don't know about you but you need a
defender i need a defender
and again luke chapter 23 now verse 43
jesus there says truly i say to you
today you will be with me in paradise
who do you say that to church
thief on the cross
i love this for a lot of reasons by the
way this is one of my favorite hospital
or
hospice visitation versus
when you go visit an unbeliever you know
you'll call and say pastor can you go
visit my unbelieving uncle he's dying
without christ can you go
and let me tell you the the accelerant
that causes me to go
is this verse that you can come to
christ on your deathbed there was a man
hanging on a cross
he's hanging on the cross next to jesus
remember what the bible says on
this day in history both of them are
cursing jesus imagine here's jesus in
the middle you got some
reprobate loser on one side you got his
brother reprobate loser on the other
side and at the start of the day they're
both cursing jesus
now that's
that's being lost when you're hanging on
the cross
and you're cussing
at a one you know to be innocent
and one man had a change of mind
metanoia in greek
he had an afterthought
and he said hey wait a minute don't you
think it's weird that we're up here we
deserve this but what about him
and apparently that one man just kept on
cussing and the other man came to
believing
and jesus turned to him and said today
you'll be with me in paradise i thank
god that i can go to a hospital room and
tell somebody the gospel and the ten
commandments and show them how
disparaged their life is from christ and
for them to say but will god will god
forgive me
well yes if you repent of your sin are
you sorry for what you did against god
oh i'm so sorry pastor
i want jesus in my life
i believe he died on the cross for my
sins and rose again from the dead
and how great it is to be able to say to
them my dear friend
in an hour not too far from now
you will be in paradise
you'll be with
god for the bible is very clear to be
absent from the bodies to be present
with the lord
he's your defense do you have christ as
your defense man i hope so
number three he's our covering how is it
that he's worthy of our praise oh he's
our covering
the third pronouncement is the
he's our covering in john chapter 19
verse 26
jesus said to his mother this is
fascinating listen to this jesus says to
his mother mary's at the foot of the
cross
he says woman
this is your son
then he said to the disciple who's the
disciple it's john we learn
this is your mother and the bible says
from that hour john took
mary home and took care of her did you
know that
i love the fact though that listen to
the verbiage of jesus listen to what
he's saying woman this is your son well
john wasn't her son
listen
and mary was not john's mother
jesus was revealing the fact that
what he was dying for was a family
that if you would say today blood is
thicker than water you know that saying
then jesus is announcing to us that
spirit is thicker than blood
how many of us can attest to the fact
that we have fleshly brothers and
sisters or moms and dads or kids but
we're not close to them at all
we are much more closer to the household
of faith our brothers and sisters in
spirit right you know what i'm talking
about you're my family this is my family
you are my family
and i'm one in this family
[Applause]
but in his remarkable salvation
when i say he's our covering
it's it's as though that he is our grand
gatherer okay
that all things are yes and amen in him
and that answers to habakkuk chapter 2.
the bible tells us in habakkuk chapter 2
that it's the just
that shall live by faith
and so john
here's this faith statement by jesus and
the invitation to be in the family of
god number four
he's our sacrifice
how is it that he's worthy dear friends
tonight this weekend celebrate the fact
that jesus christ is our sacrifice and i
want to stress this very very
uh
firm and the fourth proclamation you
find in matthew chapter 27 verse 46 and
also mark 15 34.
and when i say sacrifice i can't think
and again i cannot think of anything
worse than this but i have to again
imagine because i'll never know this you
will never know this
jesus cried out
and i my god my god why hast thou
forsaken me
people like to make fun of that verse
who don't believe in jesus
oh listen to him what's that all about
he's confused he doesn't get it
see
how much of a human he only was just was
a very good human
seems like it
until you realize he's quoting verbatim
the 22nd psalm which is to the jew a
messianic
psalm
that drives jews to this day crazy
because it's an announcement of their
messiah but they cannot grasp the fact
nor do they want to grasp the fact that
their old testament scriptures say that
their messiah will be a sacrifice
he has to be a sacrifice before he comes
as conquering king
and jesus cries out from the cross
my god my god why is thou forsaken me
that wasn't for his benefit that was for
our benefit
he was separated from his father in
fellowship for the first time in
eternity
because of my sin being laid upon him
behold the eyes of the lord says
habakkuk in another place are too pure
to behold evil
the bible says in second corinthians 5
21 that he who knew no sin became sin
for us that we might receive the
righteousness of god
which is in him through faith the great
exchange
god was taking off of me my sin
and putting it upon his son the
sacrifice the lamb
and he took the righteousness of his
innocent son
and put that to my account
under my name
under a spreadsheet in heaven in a file
labeled my name
all my sins have been washed away
the bible says in the book of colossians
that christ took my sin and nailed it to
his cross
having removed from me
the handwriting of ordinances that were
against me all my life and that goes for
you too how many of you are trusting
christ this evening raise your hand your
sins have been removed
by god's salvation that comes via the
sacrifice of christ
it's awesome
number five
out of the seven
the how to him being worthy
is his suffering
he suffered
the fifth pronouncement
is the fact that he suffered and it's
all summed up in two words again
profound
messianic words
by the way lifted right out verbatim
from isaiah 53
written
743 years before jesus christ
was hanging on the cross
jesus christ in john 19 28 i thirst
that was the statement
to the observers
wait what'd he say wait what did he say
he said he thirst
oh my goodness that takes me back to
our
childhood growing up in jewish classes
and schools that takes me back
to
shabbat just the other week in the
synagogue
wherever you were in the world galilee
jerusalem ethiopia
lebanon
turkey
the scripture says that the messiah will
cry in isaiah 53 i thirst
and jesus christ i thirst can you
imagine being there if you knew the
scriptures and you're watching this
unfold in front of you what would have
been your response
he suffered
number six
how is he worthy
because he's the great provider jehovah
jireh
god will provide do you remember a
moment ago we read
there out of genesis where god told
abraham take your son your only son i
love that
he had another son but that was not the
son of promise ishmael was the son of
a human effort i'll put it nicely
and god said nice kid but not the one
abraham
i told you
the coming of
the child i'm talking about it's
miraculous
and so
isaac's born
isaac now jews will tell you scholars
will tell you rabbis will tell you he's
silver between 25 and 35 years of age i
love that
abraham's very old
and he's taking a uh
a couple of witnesses and
donkeys and wood
to a mountain god said i'll show you the
mountain and the bible tells us there in
scripture it's the mount moriah
dear friends listen if there's a skeptic
in the house you need to do the math on
this one just this one alone what is the
odds what's the probability that
thousands of years ago thousands and
thousands and thousands of years ago
there would be a prophecy written down
the scripture
and it would be another son
carrying wood up the top of a hill and
to be offered up as the lamb of god but
the prophecy said the lord will provide
himself the lamb
and it's the exact same hilltop
you see well jesus was orchestrating his
death
really
you know he's the great provider
in john chapter 19 verse 30 the bible
tells us when jesus had received the
sour wine he said it is finished
i love that
i'm not being silly or cute when i say i
love that he said it is finished he
didn't say i'm finished he didn't say
you're finished he said it's finished
salvation's finished it's all done
to tell us i paid in full i paid the
bill that's what it means i paid the
bill
the other night lisa and i
were we're at victoria gardens and we
got hungry and we
went into a restaurant and had
had a dinner
and uh
we were in a hurry to get home because
we're old and wanted to go to bed and
something magical about going to bed
while the sun's still up
you young people you do not get what i'm
talking about there will come a day
and
the
server came up and said your bill's paid
for i said excuse me i mean usually to
be honest with you i'm the one that's
kind of doing that i love doing that
stuff you see somebody in the r you
recognize them from the restaurant or
from church at the restaurant
can you pay the bill
it's just fun try that sometime it's so
fun
and then when they then when they hear
about it oh it's paid they go like this
and you just you know you're not looking
are you
and so um i said who paid the bill oh
they told me not to say and i said who
paid the bill
and they and she said well they said if
you insisted
she did she go she said they said if you
insisted it's the family behind you
so lisa and i got up and we just got up
and just and just looked right down at
their table like this
and in that moment what can you say
only one only the only thing you can say
thank you
you want to argue about it you look like
an idiot
no think about it do you know how hard
it is for us to receive gifts because of
pride i can do it myself
pride
can you imagine if i would have gotten
up and said you know what that was very
nice gesture but um
i'm gonna go pay your bill now
that's weird
that's pride
hey god i know jesus died on the cross
thank you very much but i can take it
from here
that's pride
totally
if you could get to heaven on your own
works then what in the world was jesus
doing on the cross
and he had to finish it
thank god he finishes his jobs
i've got so many unfinished jobs in life
it's pathetic
i thank god he's not like me
what he does he finishes
he's awesome
he's the great provider it's finished
and then finally jesus
cries out number seven
in luke chapter 23 verse 46 jesus cried
with a loud voice the bible says father
and i love this father
into your hands
i commit my spirit
he's the finisher
he finishes it
on god's
day when christ hung on the cross jesus
went to work
and he was suspended between heaven and
earth
and those seven statements coincide with
the seven i am's
of god
and jesus is all in all
church tonight we're gonna partake of
communion together i'm gonna ask terry
to come back out and nancy and
i got to be very honest with you if
you're not a christian tonight you need
to you need to know the details of the
bible tonight on communion if you're not
a christian tonight you have got to just
sit here
and and just wait or i mean you can
leave now if you want but the people
that brought you i mean you can wait if
you want
but i got to tell you something did you
know that the bible is extremely
explicit about communion
it is the only thing in the new
testament that excludes all others from
except the family of god
communion
in fact the bible says in first
corinthians 11 that even if a christian
is living in sin
they ought to either quickly repent make
it right with god before they partake of
communion or they should abstain
i highly recommend you repent and get
right with god
because right after communion i'm
praying that a trumpet blast would blow
and we'd all meet jesus
in the air that'd be awesome
but dear friends listen we're going to
worship and here's the thing if you're
visiting if you're new tonight you're
going to think pandemonium is about
ready to break out
i want to assure you it is nuts
but we've carried this over from
30 years ago of being a home bible study
as the worship begins i'm going to ask
each of you to search your own heart
before the lord
and when you are ready maybe you alone
maybe you and your husband or your wife
or maybe you and your friends or family
or maybe you solo single doesn't matter
when you're right
then you can make your way forward
there's tables in the back
and you partake
between you and the lord
now i know there's a lot of people in
here right now it will work
it works every
month it works
but you need to know that the elements
the bread the matzah bread
is unleavened bread that's for a reason
there's no yeast in it it's flat bread
no yeast symbol of no sin symbol
the bread is pierced through
matzah has to be pierced through
by the way jesus the bible says he was
the bread of life
he had no sin
think of it
he was pierced for our
sins
and then the chastisement the whipping
the beatings were placed upon him the
bread of life
so that by his stripes we are healed
both spiritually and for physical
healings
god's grace god goodness according to
his will and that bread represents that
did you hear me it represents that my
dear friends if tonight you're a
catholic and you're saying wait a minute
aren't you going to turn the bread into
his body
absolutely not thank god no the bible
says in the book of hebrews that shall
never be for christ suffered once on the
cross and to never suffer again
that's how worthy he is
that's how worthy he is and in the cup
the cup is a type a symbol of his blood
offered for you and the
covenant between him and the father
christ did this for you by you partaking
of these elements you're saying lord we
are one in the family i'm one with you
jesus thank you for being my lord and
savior
and we partake from the same cup and
from the same
tray
family of god
the quentiny of god
so dear friends if right now as we begin
to worship
if tonight you're not a christian you
want to become a christian please
understand this you cannot become a
member of this church it's not allowed
it will not save you we don't want your
money
you need
to talk to him
he's listening and he's been waiting for
this moment
from you for all your life
if you tonight believe that jesus christ
according to the bible died on the cross
and rose again from the dead
the bible says all those who put their
trust in him shall never be put to shame
he said all those who come to the lord i
will no wise turn away isn't that
awesome
do you believe today that he died on the
cross for you and that he rose again
from the dead
that he'll save you
then today i'm inviting you to become a
follower of jesus christ that's the term
we love using here
a follower means you're going to put one
foot in front of the other after him
okay that's what we're doing here
is to follow him
look if you've made that decision
then when the elements come by you grab
them
for the first time in your life
you now understand
and you worship
him with us for he alone
is worthy
church i'm going to ask you to stand and
as we make this our last
our last song it's
it's our departure tonight it is our
it is our time to get into the sandals
as it were of the disciples
2 000 years ago to think what they must
have been thinking
feeling
tomorrow saturday
a silent day in the bible they it says
that they made preparations that's it
that's a reference to the women
with anticipation
wanting to get to the tomb on sunday
morning early to
anoint
the dead body of jesus
they've got quite a shock coming
and so father we as a church family
praise and exalt you and say that you
and you alone are worthy o lord
to receive the praise the honor and the
glory
for you
lord of the lamb
that was sacrificed
and that in heaven
there is that testimony as john said
behold i saw as it were a lamb that had
been slain
standing
before the throne
father
thank you
for allowing us to live in this time
because we lord
know
so much more than what those early
disciples knew
back then
we know how this turns out thank you god
we've read the back of the book
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